For the use of families : a plain and familiar treatise on the cow-pox, describing its origin, nature, and mode of inoculation, (with a plate,) whereby any person may distinguish the genuine from the spurious kind-- a distinction of the utmost importance : as the one kind renders the body unsusceptible of the infection of the common small-pox, whilst the other, having only a local effect, leaves it still liable to that baneful disease / extracted from the writings of Drs. Jenner [and others].

Date:
1804
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Credit: For the use of families : a plain and familiar treatise on the cow-pox, describing its origin, nature, and mode of inoculation, (with a plate,) whereby any person may distinguish the genuine from the spurious kind-- a distinction of the utmost importance : as the one kind renders the body unsusceptible of the infection of the common small-pox, whilst the other, having only a local effect, leaves it still liable to that baneful disease / extracted from the writings of Drs. Jenner [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. 1 A TREATISE on the Cow-Pox in a plain, easy and familiar style, anti at a low price, seems to be much wanted ; m order, it possible, to extend the happy advantages which a gracious Providence has been pleased to confer upon the world by so valuable a discovery. 2 htslrne, that several very excellent publications have appeared „ enhiect • but the general usefulness of the greater part of them, See'lamentably curtaifed by their authors' having placed them out of the teach ofthe purses or the iMlecfs of the major,ty of mankmdi-To 1 the attention Ld by th^nUy to undervalue the me ^ ^ the generous offers from the highly than myself. Hoivev ' ■1. d the elf0rts 0f certain benevolent Faculty to inoculate the pr g* ‘ we nol slill t0 lament, that characters tc' enc0”S does not gain that universal adoption which Inoculation for the-Co^ -1 - d 8po][ conlinue t0 commit dreadful merltS! an Locent race of sufferers --And, it appears, that some other'more'effectual measures must be resorted to, be,ore these helpless objects can be Je.scl’e^ circumstances, will or 4. I cannot imae , £ Jt in the inoculation of their children ought to hesitate to^Pj practice, accurate observation and for the Co^'P”u;tins^rc to them a decided preference to all the books m superior skill, ™*ins in them, allays those anxious fears fo r o u r' ch U dren s 6 w e If a r e, which parental tenderness rs ever ready to suggest. ' however that one great obstacle to the progress 5 U appears to ne^ or vJadmtanding .-The baneful of the Vaccine Inoculation g be verv considerably lessened ; effects of the common Sinai 'P ' be eradicated from this island, till people nor can the cqu'ainted with the happy advantages derived become more intimately a cl wiU as readily as he may safely from the Cow-Pox ; anl till devoully t0 be wished, that the ^^1^‘^rpated and repelled from onr shores, with the same -and the pulpit would Mt be disgraced by^ ^ jncu„> bent duty :_Nay the propriety, and enforcing I * - employ the lancet more) «E=y are the on such occasions. Severn • b ism . an(] Mr. Bell, m his ex- to inoculate the c i <• ren a nientiotis a Clergyman in Yorkshire, who cellent treatise on the Cow-Fo ownftnd. Surely the hearts